Dezeen has teamed up with Design Miami to publish the transcripts of the Design Talks programme at the Florida fair’s sister event, Design Miami/Basel 2007, which was held in Switzerland this June. More »
Kimono Chair is a concept for creating furniture out of a flat piece of material by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka. More »
Here is another set of photos of Vitra Edition, the collection of limited-edition pieces by famous designers including Jasper Morrison, Naoto Fukasawa and Konstantin Grcic that furniture brand Vitra launched in June, during Design Miami/Basel.
This time the photos all have captions on them so we don’t have to write them.
A series of design classics by Gio Ponti were destroyed and reassembled into new pieces by designer Martino Gamper in front of a live audience at the Design Miami/Basel collectors’ fair in June.
Swedish design team Front have presented images of their latest body of work, called the Magic Collection. More »
Basel update: Vitra have sent us new photos of Vitra Edition 2007 – a collection of limited-edition pieces by leading designers and architects that are on show at the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in Germany until 22 July. More »
Basel update: Milanese gallery Nilufar presented a limited edition series of Bookcase by Martino Gamper at Design Miami/Basel last week. More »
Basel update: Galerie Kreo of Paris showed new furniture by Hella Jongerius (above) and the Bouroullec brothers (below) plus work by Front and Fernando Brizio, among others, at the Design Miami/Basel fair last week.
Top image: Backpack Sofa by Hella Jongerius. Above: Rice Field table by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
Above: Painting with Giotto #3 by Fernando Brizio More »
Basel update: British artist/designer Barnaby Barford presented a new range of porcelain figurines with David Gill Galleries at the Design Miami/Basel collectors’ fair that ended on Saturday. More »
(Almost) live from Basel: the opening party for the MyHome and Vitra Edition 2007 exhibitions at Weil am Rhein on Wednesday night saw every building on the Vitra Campus open to guests, and open-air lounges set up beneath cherry trees in a meadow.
Above: Christian Ouwens and Maarten Baas (nearest table) More »
Live from Basel: here are some photos we took at Comme des Garçons Guerrilla Store +4161, which has been temporarily set up in an old industrial building in Basel, Switzerland. More »
Live from Basel: here are a few snaps we took at the opening of the MyHome exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum on the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein on Wednesday.
The exhibition, subtitled “Seven experiments for contemporary living,” presents installations by designers Jurgen Bey (below), Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the Campana Brothers (top image), Hella Jongerius, Greg Lynn, Jurgen Mayer H, and Jerszy Seymour (above). More »
Live from Basel: over the last two days, designers have been creating objects live at the Design Miami/Basel fair in Switzerland. More »
Live from Basel: here are some snaps from the Vitra Edition 2007 show in the Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra campus at Weil am Rhein close to Basel. More »
Live from Basel: we just arrived in Basel, Switzerland for the Design Miami/Basel fair. We’ll be here for the next few days reporting live on the show. Off to the big event at the nearby Vitra Design Museum now, more news and photos soon…
